Sometimes talking about global warming can make you sound like an "alarmist." The impacts are likely to be so wide-spread, dangerous and expensive that it seems to like you're claiming the sky is falling (rather than just that it's filling up with pollution). It is hard to process such daunting information, even when it's based on hard science, so…Read More

Since 1990, the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has released a series of reports that assess the latest data and research on climate change. The reports are issued approximately every five years. In September 2013, the IPCC issued its newest round of reports by sharing the latest science, concluding with more…Read More

If renewable energy is a good thing, then a lot of renewable energy is a very good thing, right? Not exactly, according to recent articles in the L.A. Times and Forbes about challenges posed by the growth of renewables. But, as we’ve pointed out, the issue here is not too much renewable energy, but rather a vulnerable U.S. electric grid built for…Read More